Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab288eba8435847d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-04-09 00:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 138616daee3ede7c0badf18d9450b174 SHA-1: 58dfbb41f858351dd927a64ad48c5439789a9e23 SHA-256: ab288eba8435847dce535882296c824ff035c5b630ad78cc2882a1c305c778dd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports the phishing lure interpretation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/52872338461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/gurasijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/wozupidojenebimovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/kixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/danodajanenalidadalibebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=acid+amine+coupling+reagents+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vifixofixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/72323592377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/85064040694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC969 5344 bytes
SHA-256: e6019ab82b7efd4ce4ac710054012054ff011aea55b3979767ddd4299b9711d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000db74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB74 10592 bytes
SHA-256: e83744ada173b3cb93be5da7a27ec74bf40e5afd8deb9014432bcdf443b2128d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF96 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378

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